- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:41:10 -0400
- To: Jungshik Shin <jshin@i18nl10n.com>
- Cc: kuro@sonic.net, www-international@w3.org
Jungshik Shin scripsit: > > It should put charset=UTF-8 in Content-Type header. > Obviously, we can't do that for GET(there's no C-T header for > GET. Currently MS IE and Mozilla use a proprieatary '_charset_' for this > purpose only when the hidden field of '_charset_' is present in the form). IMHO this should be documented and treated as best practice. Browsers should not of course invoke a new charset unless they have to. In this way, the server can recover from the garbling by treating what it gets as octets and doing its own character decoding. -- One art / There is John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> No less / No more http://www.reutershealth.com All things / To do http://www.ccil.org/~cowan With sparks / Galore -- Douglas Hofstadter
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